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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: RELIGION & PRESIDENTS
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:30:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.102041.7378@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <93022.002158U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> <1johhhINNlt@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1johhhINNlt@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- |> David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- |>
- |> > Yeah, me and most of my atheist friends were pretty disgusted about the
- |> >whole inaguration. I seem to remember that one war general who was
- |> >considering running for president made some pretty anti-religious
- |> >comments and he dropped out of the race soon afterward. Too bad he
- |> >couln't have kept his mouth shut:)
- |>
- |> > As a side note, i heard the prime minister of england is an atheist.
- |> >Is this true?? Wow, this could never happen here. Are there any more
- |> >freely-elected atheist high-powered officals? ( in the world ? )
- |>
- |> The English Prime Minister is not really freely elected. I think that
- |> he is chosen from among the majority party in the House of Commons.
-
- You don't mean "freely elected" you mean "directly elected". He does
- not run in a special election in the way that the US president does.
- Instead, he is elected leader of his party first, and then after a General
- Election the leader of the party that can control the legislature becomes
- Prime Minister. The electorate know who they are going to get for Prime
- Minister if they vote for X party. This is how most Pariamentary systems
- work. It's not special to the UK. [Note, not England, which has no
- Prime Minister of its own, but UK]
-
- Oh, and by the way, the original poster was probably thinking of Neil
- Kinnock, not John Major.
-
- jon.
-